iPXE booting latest PCengines alu board

[Kamil Czekirda]

I suggest official documentation:

http://ipxe.org/docs

There is many good solutions for iPXE, but I havn't seen good for FreeBSD.

It will my work this summer.


2014-06-13 10:32 GMT+02:00 Daniel Braniss <danny at cs.huji.ac.il>:
> Hi Kamil,
> Nice work! though I’m not that ambitious.
> I need to be able to load pxeboot and that seems to
> need some magic. BTW, do you know where there is
> some good docs on iPXE?
>
> thanks,
>         danny
>
>
> On Jun 13, 2014, at 12:38 AM, Kamil Czekirda <kczekirda at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Please look at my GSoC wiki page:
>> https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2014/FreeBSD_PXE_preseed
>>
>> There is kpxe file, you can chainload it using file option in your dhcp server.
>>
>> It's very simple script:
>>
>> #!ipxe
>> dhcp
>> cpuid --ext 29 && set CPU-ARCH amd64 || set CPU-ARCH i386
>> set img http://mfsbsd.vx.sk/files/images/10/${CPU-ARCH}/mfsbsd-10.0-RELEASE-${CPU-ARCH}.img
>> kernel http://volt.iem.pw.edu.pl/~czekirdk/memdisk raw
>> initrd ${img}
>> boot
>>
>> It detects architecture and runs mfsbsd directly from Martin Matuska website.
>>
>> It's simpliest way to boot different iso or img image of FreeBSD. It
>> will be nice to have local mirror and make menu with different
>> releases. I'll prepare menu, but I need few days, I'll inform you.
>>
>> I think that in next week will be ready iPXE port for FreeBSD and
>> simply solutions.
>>
>> I have many scripts to boot ubuntu, debian, etc. and I can help you
>> with it. It's simple to run FreeBSD from nfs server too. Ask if you
>> have problems.
>>
>> Kamil
>>
>> 2014-06-12 17:26 GMT+02:00 Mike Tancsa <mike at sentex.net>:
>>> On 6/12/2014 10:38 AM, Daniel Braniss wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> while I try to learn about iPXE, I am wondering if someone already
>>>> managed to boot FreeBSD via the network, else it’s going to be an
>>>> interesting weekend :-)
>>>
>>>
>>> If you mean http://www.pcengines.ch/apu.htm, just make sure you are booting
>>> a relatively recent FreeBSD version (newer than April I think). Otherwise,
>>> it boots just fine like any other bit of hardware over the network.
>>>
>>>        ---Mike
>>>
>>>
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